18 comments:

Great theories! From all the posts you and Eddie made about film that I've been going back and rereading, I've realized that film is primarily a medium of the image and the music, and the way they interact. Even a silent film, in the way the images flow and are cut, can be "musical."

(Here in the Netherlands we do get courses in film and animation history in our first year as animation students by the way. I loved those courses about Chaplin, Orson Welles and animation legends like Oskar Fischinger and Lotte Reiniger aswell as modern legends like Tex Avery and Chuck Jones.)

That's a fantastic passage. It's certainly heartening to remember what we're doing when we make cartoons. Rather than getting wrapped up in the confines of specialization (& by that i mean making cartoons to fit development slates etc). Expression is a function of existing.

John, i've been busy of late, but had time to start the Jinks exercise. With these couple of drawings, everything i've learned thus far began to come together. I feel real progress & the lessons have been invaluable in both my personal & professional practises.

I always assumed most series cartoons just had a standard set of credit cards at the end that didn't change from episode to episode. I don't know if that's actually true, but most studios could certainly get away with it if they wanted, what with stations compressing credits to unreadable sizes so part of the screen can be used to promote other shows.